LUCAS - re rear blade for moving snow... That depends. If you try to move snow going forward your drive tires will always be trying to find traction on snow covered ground, you'll need chains and probably lots of weight. If you move snow in reverse you'll have better traction but speaking from personal experience it's a PAIN looking over your shoulder moving snow.
And the rear blades don't have as tall of moldboards so in more than a couple inches of snow you'll have snow running over the top of the blade.
I used to use my belly blade to move those little 1 to 2 inch snow falls and finally last winter used my first CC frt mounted blade and it worked fine on up to 3-4 inch snow falls. My driveway slopes and I have to push snow "downhill" and by the time I scraped 20-30 feet of snow into a windrow I had a LOT of snow to push with a CC. But it was still faster & easier than using my big tractor on those little snows.
For something like the "Storm of the Century" we had the first weekend of Feb last winter ONLY the BIG tractor would do. The snow drifted & packed in solid and even though I had bare patches of concrete showing there were drifts 3-4 feet tall I could walk over and barely leave foot prints. Took me 1-1/2 hours to clean the drive with my big tractor and normally it takes 1/2 to 3/4 hour. I had snow piles 8 feet tall. I don't think you can pile snow that high with a Cub Cadet.